Topic > Andrew Ng

Baidu’s research could lead to noticeable performance improvements for applications like voice search and navigation. But at this point, Baidu merely wants to be public about its theoretical achievements.

For the first time a brick and mortar educational institution, Antioch University, will offer Coursera MOOCs (massive open online courses) for credit as part of a bachelor’s degree program. This announcement could be one of the first tremors in a seismic shift in higher education.

Two Stanford University professors and a dream to educate the world, that’s what started Coursera. The service offers university-level courses to anyone with an Internet for free and just raised $16 million from venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.